Motivation on the Run

This article is one of the most enlightening I’ve read in a long time. It shows us for what we are and how we think we are in control. The premise is, giving the information that you will die without changing one thing, will you change. The answer will surprise some and not others.

The author has done quite a bit of homework for this article and it shows in the article being thousands of words long. The only judge I have to length is that it took me about 35 minutes to read the entire thing. I must admit, several paragraphs required a re-read though. All I can say is, be prepared to face your own demons…

Change or Die

What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren’t just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing CEO. We’re talking actual life or death now. Your own life or death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If you didn’t, your time would end soon — a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered? When it mattered most?

Yes, you say?

Try again.

Yes?

You’re probably deluding yourself.

You wouldn’t change.

Don’t believe it? You want odds? Here are the odds, the scientifically studied odds: nine to one. That’s nine to one against you. How do you like those odds?

[tags]motivation, habits, self-control[/tags]